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Semester 1 2011-2012. Research Review. 1) Who were the researchers?. High serotonin levels cause hallucinations in Buddhist monks. Answer. Kasamatsu and Hirai, 1999. 2) Who were the researchers?.
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Semester 1 2011-2012 Research Review
1) Who were the researchers? High serotonin levels cause hallucinations in Buddhist monks
Answer Kasamatsu and Hirai, 1999
2) Who were the researchers? Acetylcholine levels were manipulated in rats to observe the effect on their memory of a maze; those with lower acetylcholine levels had more difficulty remembering the maze
Answer: Martinez and Kesner, 1991
3) Researcher? After a research on his patient, “Tan,” he discovered an area of the brain related to speech production
Answer: Paul Broca
4) Researcher? Discovered an area of the brain responsible for speech comprehension
Answer: Carl Wernicke
5) Researchers? Their research showed a connection between high testosterone levels and antisocial behavior in men
Answer: Dabbs and Morris
6) Researcher? Famous for work with split-brain patients whose corpus callosum was severed
Answer: Roger Sperry or Michael Gazzinaga
7) Researchers? Their research showed that rats raised in a stimulating environment showed more brain development than rats in a control group and rats in an impoverished environment
Answer: Rosenzweig and Bennett
8) Researcher? Developed the concept of “fight or flight” as our natural response to stress
Answer: Walter Cannon
9) Researcher? Created what is known as the General Adaptation Syndrome which has 3 phases to our physical response to stress
Answer: Hans Selye
10) Researchers? Created the “Type A” and “Type B” personalities and concluded that “Type A” personalities are more susceptible to coronary heart disease
Answer: Friedman and Rosenman
11) Researcher? Conducted several studies on identical twins…many of which were separated at birth and then reunited many years later; conclusion was that their similarities were largely due to genetics
Answer: Thomas Bouchard
12) Researchers? Created a tame breed of foxes showing that a behavioral trait can be passed on from one generation to the next; evidence for the evolutionary perspective
Answer: Belyaev and Trut
13) Researcher? Showed an evolutionary explanation for the feeling of disgust
Answer: Fessler, 2006
14) Researcher? Radical Behaviorist who believed behavior only occurs because of learning such as with the process of classical conditioning; known for his conditioning of Little Albert
Answer: John Watson
15) Researcher? Conditioned dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell
Answer: Ivan Pavlov
16) Researcher? Created an operant chamber to illustrate the process of operant conditioning; For example, birds were reinforced to peck a button by receiving food
Answer: B.F. Skinner
17) Researcher? Created the concept of latent learning by showing that rats who roamed a maze without a reinforcer still learned and created a cognitive map of the maze
Answer: E.C. Tolman
18) Researcher? Showed the idea of insight with his challenges to a chimp named Sultan
Answer: Wolfgang Kohler
19) Researchers? • Showed the power of schemas in their study involving the items in a house and which items could be remembered from the perspective of a house buyer or burglar
Answer: Anderson and Pichert
20) Researcher? Showed the power of cultural schemas on our interpretation and memory of a story called, “The War of the Ghosts”
Answer: Frederic Bartlett
21) Researchers? Created the multistore memory model: sensory memory, STM, and LTM
Answer: Atkinson and Shiffrin
22) Researcher? In his numerous studies on memory, he created the forgetting curve
Answer: Herman Ebbinghaus
23) Researcher? Showed the influence of the “spacing effect” on learning and memory
Answer: Harry Bahrick
24) Researchers? Showed the influence of the serial position effect with immediate and delayed free recall
Answer: Glanzer and Cunitz, 1966
25) Researchers? Created the theory of “Levels of Processing” in that we encode information differently…sometimes in a shallow manner and other times in a deep manner
